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Gently
Down The Stream
by Ray
Robertson
Novel
ISBN: 1-896951-67-8
Hardcover
5.125" x 7.625"
$29.95
300 pages
BISAC Codes
FIC019000
Fiction/Literary
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Gently
Down The Stream
by Ray
Robertson
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a Q&A with Ray here.
Hank Roberts can't buy a thrill.
His wife, Mary, his best friend, Phil, Phil's annoying new girlfriend
and Canada's hottest new female novelist, Rebecca — everyone
but Hank, it seems — has either become what they set out to
be or are well on their way to getting there. Hank isn't old, but
he's not young anymore, either; is bright, but by no means brilliant;
is undeniably restless, but not by any stretch ambitious. He loves
his wife, his dog, and rock and roll, but lately that just doesn't
seem to be enough.
Doomed, apparently, to be just another overeducated and underachieving
Toronto thirty-something, Hank gets jarred out of his itchy complacency
by a chance musical encounter at a Friday-night karaoke bar and
his realization of the increasing gentrification of his west-end
neighbourhood and, by extension, of the mind-numbing homogenization
of the world around him.
Aided by just the right amount of chemical self-medication and armed
with only a karaoke microphone and a midnight vandal's sack of eco-warriorism
goodies, Hank sets out to reenergize his life and save the planet,
or least his little part of it. The question of whether or not his
marriage, his sanity, or that very world itself can survive his
determined efforts makes Gently
Down the Stream Ray Robertson's most engaging, searching, and
mature novel yet.
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